Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 March 2019
The authors have developed two independent software packages that store x-ray peak locations, integrated intensities and full-width half-maximum intensity data as a function of diffractometer tilt and orientation angle; this information is used to compute residual stress tensor values. Each program retrieves the fitted x-ray peak locations from a dBASE-compatible data set that is independent of both x-ray diffractometer and acquisition software. Machine-specific routines have been coded to transfer peak data and general diffraction setup information from several different x-ray acquisition platforms into this common format. The two database management programs provide stand-alone storage, retrieval, analysis and graphic output of data, and thus have become practical laboratory vehicles toward establishing a standard database format for storing x-ray strain measurements and the residual stress values calculated therefrom.